DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY

 HEADQUARTERS

 8725 JOHN J. KINGMAN ROAD

 FORT BELVOIR, VIRGINIA 22060-6221

January 22, 2018

MEMORANDUM FOR PIPELINE MEASUREMENT (PM) PROCESS REVIEW 

COMMITTEE (PRC) MEMBERS

SUBJECT: Approved Addendum to Defense Logistics Management System (DLMS) Change 

ADC 1025E (Staffed as PDC 1025E), Provide Navy Unit Mobile Data and Update 

COCOMs, CONUS and OCONUS LMARS Data into the Logistics Metrics Analysis 

Reporting System (LMARS) 

The attached approved change to DLM 4000.25, Defense Logistics Management 

Standards, Volume 6, Chapter 4, Pipeline Measurement, Logistics Metric Analysis Reporting 

System (LMARS) is approved for implementation no later than 17 September 2018.

Addressees may direct questions to Ms. Tonja Daniels-Carter, Chair, Pipeline 

Measurement PRC, 269-961-5227, DSN 661-5227 or email Tonja.Daniels-Carter@dla.mil. 

Others may direct questions to their Service or Agency designated Pipeline Measurement PRC 

representative available at 

http://www.dla.mil/HQ/InformationOperations/DLMS/DLMSPrograms/committees/pmprc/ 

 

 

 HEIDI M. DAVEREDE

Director

Enterprise Business Process

Standards Office

Attachment

 As stated

 cc:

 ODASD (SCI)
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Attachment to ADC 1025E

Provide Navy Unit Mobile Data and Update 

COCOMs, CONUS and OCONUS LMARS Data into 

the Logistics Metrics Analysis Reporting System 

(LMARS)

1. ORIGINATING SERVICE/AGENCY AND POC INFORMATION: 

a. Technical POC: Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Headquarters J341, Stephen E. 

Meyer, (703) 767-3524 

b. Functional POC: Enterprise Business Standards Office, Tonja Daniels-Carter, PM 

PRC Chair, (269) 961-5227, tonja.daniels-carter@dla.mil; Defense Automatic Addressing 

System (DAAS), Mary Maurer, (937) 426-8628

2. FUNCTIONAL AREA:

a. Primary/Secondary Functional Area: Logistics Metrics

b. Primary/Secondary Functional Process: Logistics Metrics Analysis Reporting 

System (LMARS)

3. REFERENCES:

a. DLM 4000.25, Defense Logistics Management Standards, Volume 6, Logistics 

Systems Interoperability Support Services; Chapter 4, Pipeline Measurement

b. DLM 4000.25-4, Defense Automatic Addressing System (DAAS)

c. ADC 1025, Update of Routing Identifier Codes, DOD Activity Address Codes, 

Reparable/Non-reparable National Item Identification Numbers, and Combatant Command 

designations in the Logistics Metrics Analysis Reporting System (LMARS), September 12, 

2012. 

4. REQUESTED CHANGE(S): Green highlights identify changes subsequent to staffing.

a. Brief Overview of Change: This change revised processes and logic that will modify 

LMARS Combatant Command (COCOM) delivery areas, update Alaska and Hawaii as 

OCONUS, associate Alaska to NORTHCOM- OCONUS, associate Hawaii to USPACOMOCUNUS, improve the calculation accuracy of the Logistics Response Time (LRT) for DoD 

Customers, update the Record Layout LRT logic and update Navy Mobile Units LRT metrics 

and Navy Mobile Units COCOMs and will remove all countries associated with COCOMs
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b. Background: LMARS tracks materiel as it moves through the logistics pipeline and 

reports the associated response times. LMARS uses information from DLMS transactions 

processed by DAAS, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) transaction feeds, off-line data feeds, 

and transportation data received from the Integrated Data Environment Global Transportation 

Network Convergence (IGC) to measure LRT for wholesale-managed items. While at sea, the 

movement of Navy Mobile Units makes the determination of units’ locations more complicated 

since an afloat unit may be in a different COCOM area at any given time. 

(1) Reporting starts when DAAS receives a shipment, transportation, or receipt 

transaction. The LMARS Delivery Areas conveyed in record position 22 and position 497 of the 

LRT Record Layout file: 

www.dla.mil/HQ/InformationOperations/DLMS/DLMSPrograms/committees/pmprc/.

Currently LMARS identifies the countries, COCOMs, Navy and Non-Navy data from the LRT 

file opposed to the DoDAAD. This approved change will modify the Record File and how 

LMARS reports LRT based on the DoDAAD and Navy Afloat File.

c. Approved Change in Detail: 

(1) LMARS will modify program logic to utilize the CONUS/OCONUS 

indicator in addition to the Combatant Command (COCOM) feed from DAAS for reporting LRT

to all DoD Customers with the exception of Navy Mobile Units afloat identified in the NAVY 

AFLOAT File. 

(2) For Navy Mobile Units afloat, the Navy will provide to DAAS an updated 

Navy Afloat File via Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) at the end of the third week of each 

month. LMARS will access this file from DAAS for reporting LRT by identifying the COCOM 

delivery areas, specified by beginning and ending date for Navy Mobile Units. The Navy Afloat 

file contains Navy Mobile Units underway or homeported OCONUS and does not provide a 

CONUS/OCONUS indicator. Due to this, all units on the Navy Afloat File will be reported as 

OCONUS. In the event that LMARS does not receive the COCOM on the Navy Afloat File

LMARS will report this location as “OCONUS4”. Providing the Navy Afloat File will enable 

LMARS to calculate LRT for OCONUS1, OCONUS2, OCONUS3, and OCONUS4 locations 

during a specific time for the end-of-month LMARS reports.

(3) Any change of locations between the third week of each month and the end of 

the month reporting will reflect LRT based on information received from the Navy Mobile Units 

as of the third week of that month. In the event LMARS does not receive the Navy Afloat File 

for that month, LMARS will use the latest file.

(4) Reporting for Alaska, identified as USNORTHCOM, will be reported as

OCONUS4, since Alaska is not part of the Continental United States. For Non-Navy Mobile 

Units, the COCOM for Alaska would be identified as USNORTHCOM, with an identification of 

“O” for OCONUS4. In the event LMARS receives the Navy Afloat File for Navy Mobile Units 

identified as USNORTHCOM, this will be reported as OCONUS4 for LRT. LMARS will not 

check the state, but check the CONUS/OCONUS indicator and COCOM. See item (1).
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(5) Reporting for Hawaii, identified as USPACOM, will be reported as 

OCONUS3 since Hawaii is not part of the Continental United States. LMARS will not check the 

state, but check the CONUS/OCONUS indicator and COCOM. See item (1).

(6) LMARS will update the Record File that contains the LRT layout. This 

change will omit Navy from Non-Navy, and will remove the countries associated with the 

COCOMs. The LRT file identified as Field Description CONUS-OCONUS, character position 

22, is a one digit element. This change will utilize Conus and OCONUS and COCOMs only. 

Alaska and Hawaii will be identified under the appropriate COCOM, as shown in Enclosure 1.

(7) LMARS will also update LRT file identified as Field Description AREACODE, character position 497, a one digit character as shown in Enclosure 1.

d. Revisions to DLM 4000.25 Manuals: Update DLM 4000.25, Volume 6, Chapter 4,

Pipeline Measurement as shown in Enclosure 2.

e. Approved Transaction Flow: No changes to transaction flows are required. 

f. Alternatives: None identified at this time. 

5. REASON FOR CHANGE: This change will enable LMARS logic to determine the correct 

COCOM location for DoD customers and allow constant updates by utilizing the DoDAAD data 

with the exception of Navy Mobile Units. For Navy Mobile Units, LMARS will utilize the 

COCOM from the Navy Afloat File during the three-week reporting period for each month as it 

relates to OCONUS1, OCONUS2, OCONUS3, and OCONUS4 delivery areas. All Navy Mobile 

Units from the Navy Afloat File will be reported as OCONUS3, to include the COCOM of 

USNORTHCOM.

6. ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES:

a. Advantages: The use of the Navy Mobile file in LMARS will improve LRT 

calculation accuracy for Navy units afloat in OCONUS1, OCONUS2, OCONUS3, and 

OCONUS4 locations. The LMARS reports will more accurately reflect today's business 

practices to create a responsive logistics pipeline measurement for monthly LMARS reports for 

the Navy mobile units. The remaining DoD Customers data will be derived from the DoDAAD 

data as the authoritative source for reporting of COCOM and use of the CONUS/OCONUS 

indicator.

b. Disadvantages: The Navy generates its Navy Mobile file on a weekly schedule. 

Because the end of the week and the end of the month are not synchronized, LMARS Reporting 

for Navy Mobile Units will provide LRT for only three weeks of that month as opposed to four. 

This is necessary to preclude any delay in generating the LMARS monthly reporting. Any 

change of locations between the third week of each month and the end of the month reporting 

will reflect LRT based on information received from the Navy Mobile Units as of the third week

of that month. 

7. ESTIMATED TIME LINE/IMPLEMENTATION TARGET: Implementation must be 

completed by September 17, 2018
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8. ESTIMATED SAVINGS/COST AVOIDANCE ASSOCIATED WITH 

IMPLEMENTATION OF THIS CHANGE: None Identified

9. IMPACT:

a. New/changes to DLMS Data Elements: No new DLMS data elements or changes to 

existing ones are required. 

b. Automated Information Systems (AIS): Reporting for Navy Mobile Units will 

generate reports at the third week opposed to the current fourth week under this approved 

change.

c. Defense Automatic Addressing System (DAAS): LMARS will implement and 

maintain this change.

d. Non-DLM 4000.25 Series Publications: LMARS LRT Record File Layout 

Modifications to items 22 and 497

1.

10. PROPOSED DLMS CHANGE (PDC) 1025E STAFFING RESPONSE/COMMENT 

RESOLUTION

Originator Response/Comment Disposition

1. Army N/A Noted.

2. Navy N/A Noted.

3. Air Force N/A Noted.

4. Marine Corps N/A Noted.

5. DLA

DLA Distribution

N/A Noted.

6. DSCA N/A Noted

7. DAAS Concur with Comment Information requested to advice 

LMARS on action if the Navy unit 

is not on the file. Where do we get 

the CoCom

Clarify action for LMARS if file is 

received after the third week of the 

month.

8. USTRANSCOM Concur with Comment OCONUS4 - TDD Area should be 

USSOUTHCOM (add the US at 

beginning). Add 

NORTHCOM/OCONUS to one of 

the areas. (has very significant 
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Originator Response/Comment Disposition

volume now that Alaska has moved 

to NORTHCOM)

Changes / updates to countries listed 

for each CCMD:

The mapping of countries to 

CCMDs and OCONUS1 to 

OCONUS 4 regions needs to be 

updated. Several edits noted below 

as well as many new countries that 

we are now measuring for 

performance. Some of the new 

countries listed actually have a 

significant level of volume, 

sometimes more than those already 

listed.

AFRICOM - add Cameroon, Saint 

Helena, Tunisia, and Uganda.

CENTCOM - no change.

EUCOM - Remove following which 

are renamed: Azores, Balkans, 

Atlantic. Add the following: 

Austria, Bosnia & Herzegovina, 

Bulgaria, Cyprus, Estonia, Georgia, 

Iceland, Kosovo (replaced Balkans), 

Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, 

Netherlands, Norway, Poland, 

Portugal (replaced Azores), Spain, 

and Ukraine.

NORTHCOM/OCONUS - needs to 

be mapped to an OCONUS group. 

Includes Alaska (remove it from 

PACOM), Canada, Puerto Rico and 

U.S. Virgin Islands.

PACOM - Change name of Diego 

Garcia to new official name of 

British Indian Ocean Territory, 

correct spelling of Australia 

(currently says Austria, which is in 

EUCOM), remove Alaska. Add the 
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Originator Response/Comment Disposition

following: American Samoa, 

Malaysia, and Northern Mariana 

Islands.

SOUTHCOM - add Panama

Countries will not be identified, the 

CoCom’s will be utilized off the 

DoDAAD
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Enclosure 1

Updates to LMARS Record Layout LRT File, identified by Record Position 22 and

Record Position 497 

LRT FILE

CONUS-OCONUS 22 22 1 OCONUS1 = USEUCOM/USAFRICOM

OCONUS2 = USCENTCOM

OCONUS3 = USPACOM (Hawaii Included)

OCONUS4 = USSOUTHCOM/USNORTHCOM 

(Alaska included)

CONUS = USNORTHCOM

In the event that LMARS does not receive the 

COCOM on the NAVY AFLOAT FILE LMARS will 

report this location as “OCONUS4”.

In the event LMARS does not receive the COCOM 

for Non-Navy Units Afloat from the DoDAAD, 

LMARS will default to CONUS

AREA-CODE 497 497 1 OCONUS1 = USEUCOM/USAFRICOM

OCONUS2 = USCENTCOM

OCONUS3 = USPACOM (Hawaii Included)

OCONUS4 = USSOUTHCOM/USNORTHCOM 

(Alaska)

CONUS = USNORTCOM

In the event that LMARS does not receive the 

COCOM on the NAVY AFLOAT FILE LMARS will 

report this location as “OCONUS4”

In the event LMARS does not receive the COCOM 

for Non-Navy Units Afloat from the DoDAAD, 

LMARS will default to CONUS
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Enclosure 2

Update DLM 4000.25, Volume 6, Chapter 4, Pipeline Measurement

C4.6.5.4.1. Delivery Area row headings. The five delivery areas utilized for LMARS are the 

COCOMs. The headings are CONUS, OCONUS1, OCONUS2, OCONUS3, and OCONUS4. 

The authoritative source for COCOM locations is USTRANSCOM. USTRANSCOM will 

update the DoDAAD, and the DoDAAD feeds data into LMARS. LMARS will utilize the 

DoDAAD updates with the exception of Navy Mobile Units. In order for LMARS to calculate 

LRT accurately for Navy Mobile Unit afloat, the Navy will provide to DAAS an updated NAVY 

AFLOAT FILE File via Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) at the end of the third week of 

each month. LMARS will access this file from DAAS for reporting LRT. within which a 

document number is reported is based on an internal DLA Transaction Services DAAS table. 

DLA Transaction Services DAAS researches all new DoDAACs as they are established and 

determines the appropriate delivery area. The LMARS Delivery Areas are consistent with the

United States Transportation Command Time Definite Delivery (TDD) 

areas,https://scitools.lmi.org/TDD_Standard/TDD_Standard_Script.pdf. TDD Areas 

identified in DoD 4140.1-R, Appendix 8, Paragraph AP8.2., found at 

http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf/414001r.pdf. The LMARS Delivery areas map to 

the TDD Areas as follows.

LMARS AreaTDD Areas

CONUS USNORTHCOM

OCONUS1 Area A USEUCOM/ USAFRICOM

OCONUS2 Area B USCENTCOM

OCONUS3 Area C USPACOM

OCONUS4 Area D USSOUTHCOM/USNORTHCOM